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UNITED STATES NPATENT OFFICE.

JACOB "WELTY AND ARTHUR A. LEAOH, OF HAYESVILLE, OHIO, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO HEZEKIAH BUTCHER, OF SAME PLACE.

CLOVER-SEED RECLEAN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,801, dated March 10, 1891.

Application filed September 5, 1890. Serial No. 363,988. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JACOB TELTY and ARTHUR A. LEACH, citizens of the United States7 residing at llayesville, in the county of Ashland and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Clover-Seed Recleaner, of which the following is a specication.

rllhis invention relates to clover-hullers, and it has especial reference to thatpart of cloverhulling machines which is known as the recleaner, and which serves more especially to separate the pure clover-seed from the lighter and defective qualities and from the seeds of weeds which are apt to become mixed therewith.

The object of our present invention is to construct a machine by means of which the process of recleaning may be carried out easily and efficiently, and which shall be adapted to operate equally well upon dry and damp seeds.

lVith these ends in view the invention consists in the improved construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of our improved clover-seed recleaner as adapted especially to operate upon dry seed. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view illustrating the modification of the invention, whereby it is adapted to operate more especially upon damp seed. Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on line 3 3 in Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a transverse section taken on the line l 4 in Fig. 2.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the iigures of the drawings.

1n the casing l, which is of ordinary construction, is located the shoe 2,which is adapted to receive a vibrating motion from the shaft 3 of the fan 4, which is journaled in the usual manner in the front part of the casing. A riffied screen 5 is arranged in an inclined position in the bottom of the shoe and extends into the escape-spout 6. The upper part of the shoe above the fan has the rearwardlyinclined wind-board 7, and the sides of the shoe are provided with interiorlydocated longitudinal cleats S, the purposes of which will hereinafter be made apparent. An inlet spout or hopper is suitably arranged in the casing above the wind-board 7. designates a supplemental shoe, which is composed of the side pieces 1l, connected at their Lipper edges by the screen 12. Thelower edges of the side pieces 11 are connected by the screens 13 and 14, the latter of which is inclined in an upward and forward direction and under which is arranged an inclined plate or deliector 15, the lower edge of which communicates with a transverse spout 16.

Vhen dry seeds are fed into the casing through the spout or hopper 9, they drop upon the inclined wind-board 7 and pass from thence onto the screen 12. The light and worthless seeds pass through the screen 14C onto the inclined plate 15 and from thence into the transverse trough or chute 16, through which they are conveyed to one side of the casing. Light chaff and hulls are blown out through the tail end of the casing and the good seeds drop onto the riffled screen 5, passing over the succession of steps formed upon the latter and being continually exposed to the blast from the fanuntil the perfect seeds nally escape through the spout G.

By the modication of our invention illusstrated in Fig. 2 the supplemental shoe 10 and its attachments will be dispensed with and a shoe 18, having a series of steps 19, 20, and 2l, each covered with wire-netting of increasing coarseness, substituted.'l The bottom of the shoe has a screen 22, over which is arranged a longitudinally-sliding plate or deflector 28, having a handle 24, which extends to the rear end of the casing of the machine, so that it may be readily manipulated or adjusted to any desired position. The front end of the shoe 18 normally rests upon the cleats S, and guidecleats 25 are provided to guide the delector 23 in the said shoe. The said cleats 8 are not used exceptin connection with the shoel plate 23 may be readily adjusted so as to dis- The op* IOO charge the seeds more or less to the rear, tlius increasing or diminishing the screening oa-' pacity of the screens 22 and 5 to suit the more or less damp condition of the seeds.

It is obvious that in all eases the several screens that are employed are .to be of different mesh. The `grades may be determined upon by experiment and practice.

Having thus described our invention, what We claim isl. In a elover-seed recleaner, the combination, with the casing having the inlet 9 and out-let 6,0f the vibratory shoe 2, having an inclined riftled-bottom screen, and an auxiliary shoe mounted detachably in the said main shoe and having` suitably-arranged screens, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a clover-Seed recleaner, the combination, with the casing having the fan, of the vibratory shoe 2, mounted in said casing and having the Wind-board or defieotor 7 and the inclined riled-bottom screen 5, and an auX- iliary shoe mounted detachably in said main shoe, abutting against the wind-hoard, and

having suitably-arranged screens, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In a clover-seed reoleaner, the combination, with the casing having the fan, the inlet 0, and outlet 4,01' the vibratory shoe mounted in said casing and having the inolined'rifi'ledbottom screen extending into the outlet-chute and the Wind-board 7, and an auxiliary shoe mounted detachabl'y in the said main shoe and having a bottom screen 22, a series of top screens 19, 20, and 21, and a longitudinallymovable plate or detlector 23, arranged between the top and bottom screens and having a handle extending through the rear end of the casing, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing as our own We have hereto affixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

" JACOB XYEL'FY.

ARTHUR A. LEACII. \Viti1esses:

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